MARCUSENIUS. 



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projecting a little beyond mouth ; latter small, inferior, its width ^ 

 length of head ; teeth truncate or feebly notched, 5 in upper jaw, 6 in 

 lower; nostrils halfway between end of snout and eye ; eye moderate, |- 

 length of snout, a little more than -j interorbital width. Dorsal 22-24, 

 originating above 10th ray of anal, its length 2^- times in its distance 

 from head. Anal 30-31, 1£ times as long as dorsal, nearer base of 



Fig. 47. 



Marcusenius marchii. 

 Type, after Sauv'age (N. Arch. Mns. 1880). f. 



ventral than base of caudal. Pectoral pointed, as long as head, twice as 

 long as ventral, extending beyond base of latter. Caudal with pointed 

 lobes. Caudal peduncle 4 to 5 times as long as deep, a little longer 



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than head. 62 scales in lateral line, ^ in transverse series on body, -g 

 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudal peduncle. 

 Olive-brown above, silvery beneath ; head speckled with brown. 



Total length 160 millim. 



Ogowe. — Type in Paris Museum. 

 1. Ad. Talagonga. Miss Kingsley (C). 



4. MARCUSENIUS KINGSLEY2E. 

 Mormyrus kingsleyas, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (C>) xvii. 1896, p. 281, pi. xv. 



fig. A. 

 Marcusenius kingsleyce, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 794. 

 Marcusenius cabra; Bouleng. Ann. Mns. Congo, Zool. i. p. 130, pi. xlviii. fig. 1 



(1900), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 76 (1901). 

 Marcusenius brachyistius, part., Pappenh. Mitth. Zool. Mus. Berl. iii. 1907, p. 348. 



Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head about same. 

 Head once and \ as long as deep ; snout convex, ^ length of head, 

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